Is it possible to call DLL functions from a Linux program?

[Eloy A. Paris]

Hi!

Sorry if this has been covered before, but I could not find any
answers in the archives or by Googling...

Here's the situation: I have a Windows DLL and a small Windows program
that calls functions from this DLL. The Windows program does not have
a GUI (it's command-line based.) I have the C source code for this
program, but don't have the source code for the DLL. I built the program
with Visual C and was able to run it under WINE just fine with wcmd.

Now, I want to run this program natively under Linux - I mean, I don't
want to run wcmd because that requires an X server.

The first question is: is this possible? (have a Unix program that
calls functions from a native Windows DLL). I started experimenting
with winelib, but am not sure if this is the correct way...

If this is possible, how should I do it? I ran winemaker, configure,
make, but am getting errors from winbebuild.

Summarizing: I have the C source code. This C program calls function
foo() that is in a Windows DLL. I want to run this program under Linux
without the need for an X server. The program calls gets(), printf(),
etc. I want these functions to be from my Linux's libc, not Windows'.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

Eloy.-

P.S. I read the winelib user guide, but couldn't find the answer
there. If it is there, it's not clear to me :(